Detailed monitoring of devices, services, technologies, and trends that drive the growth of smart home gear. Includes extensive data, timely research, thoughtful insights, and careful analysis across the areas of energy management, IoT, home appliances, lighting, mobile devices, and security.

Until now, adoption of smart-home technology has been dominated by single-family, detached homes. However, with consumers becoming more educated and smart-home platforms improving their reliability, other sectors now are poised for rapid adoption, such as the multi-family dwelling unit (MDU) market. Despite this growth, penetration of smart-home technology in MDUs is expected to remain negligible during the next five years.

This report assesses the opportunities and challenges for deploying smart home technology in multifamily dwellings. As smart home technology adoption begins to plateau in single-family dwellings, the opportunity for multifamily remains nascent.

ISC West is an annual security conference held in Las Vegas. According to event planners, the event boasted more than 30,000 attendees and 950 exhibitors. Of the 950 exhibitors, about 115 were associated with the connected home.

This year’s MWC Barcelona event was an important gathering place for the mobile industry, playing host to an interesting dialogue about the future of mobile connectivity. Of course, 5G was the focus of MWC, but a few other topics managed to be part of the overall mobile discussion—WiFi in particular managed to shine through the deluge of 5G announcements. Service providers like AT&T, manufacturer Samsung, network vendors Cisco and Nokia, and Internet giants Facebook and Google all made notable WiFi announcements highlighting not only their own WiFi activity but continuity of the larger WiFi ecosystem. This research note provides a summary of some of the announcements and discussions we had related to WiFi and how it relates to network and service evolution in the 5G era. Clients, please log in to view the full content.

Orange recently announced the debut of the Orange TV Stick in Slovakia, allowing the viewing of Orange TV content subscriptions on the TV. The stick is being sold for 59 Euro without the need for a contract, and can also be paid for in monthly installments of 1 Euro. The company first launched its TV stick in 2015 in Romania utilizing the same concept – relying on a mobile device for interface and control, with an HDMI device merely as a streaming conduit to the TV not dissimilar to Google’s Chromecast.
Belgium’s Telenet also recently announced its Yugo TV service bundle, launched February 19th at 100 Euros per month. The offer combines a set-top box-less 20-channel TV service, 200 Mbps fixed broadband service with unlimited data, two SIM cards, 20 GB of mobile data, 150 voice minutes, and access to Telenet’s existing Play on-demand TV and movie service. Yugo’s service is based around smartphones, utilizing the casting and mirroring capabilities of Chromecast and Apple TV respectively, when viewing on the TV is required.

Amazon and eero announced on February 11th, 2019, that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire eero. eero’s home mesh WiFi systems set up in minutes and blanket every room of a customer’s home in high-performing, reliable WiFi.

With the dawn of 5G networks right around the corner, 2019 promises to be an exciting year full of announcements, deployments, and official launches. But how will WiFi coexist alongside 5G? More importantly, how will the carrier WiFi market pan out in 2019 once 5G is introduced? Clients, please log in to view the full content.

The IHS Markit Set-top Box Intelligence vendor relationships database contains a record of which Set-top Box vendors are currently working with which pay TV operators, on a by-operator basis, for over 80 countries and over 500 operations.

This report delivers a breakdown of the drivers, market players, expected future direction of the category, and which players are expected to prevail in the long run. Global unit shipments, revenue and installed base is provided in addition to pricing tiers and release dates of smart speakers.